Each year, She’s the First programs directly impact more than 159,700 girls across 42 countries.

Over the past 14 years, we’ve created transformational outcomes for 563,741 girls by working alongside 685 community organizations in 42 countries!

Sometimes, this impact manifests in girls having access to education and mentorship (you can watch many of those stories below), but that is not all. Through our activism training programs for girls, as well as our training programs for girl-serving organizations, we measure transformational impact in several ways, including:

Among the women-led organizations we train:

Monitoring & Evaluation

She’s the First conducts ongoing evaluation through pre-and post-surveys, focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and direct observation. For each training or programming initiative, we conduct a baseline survey and a follow-up within one year to assess progress made.

Previous Campaigns

Stories have the power to inspire change. Below are some of the multimedia projects we’ve created with girls and partners over the past decade. We also publish girls’ voices on our Instagram page and in our Girl Talk blog.

Our work, day in and day out, is listening to girls to identify the barriers to their agency and investing in solutions to help more girls choose their own future. As a result, they become the first women in their families to achieve amazing milestones—and they are never the last.

Nominated by our partner organizations in 2021, our “COVID-19 Community Heroes” are shining examples of the impact girls make when given the chance to lead.

Created for International Women’s Day, this campaign recognizes the powerful role women play as mentors to underserved girls. We pay tribute to those within our network of community-based organizations.

In 2019, She’s the First celebrated 10 years of impact by honoring four Girl Champions, whose voices spoke to the truths of millions of girls. All around the world, girls are told they are not enough. They are pulled out of school when they are still children to be wives and mothers. Their voices are silenced. Their safety is at risk. But, with an education, every girl has the chance to become an #ExtraordinaryWoman.

Meet the Girl Champions—Ellie, Cynthia, Mahesh, and Angelica—here.

In March 2019, She’s the First co-created this video with Purposeful and Project PIKIN, two Sierra Leonean organizations. Together, we launched the #ShesAGirlFirst campaign to support the fight of local activists in Sierra Leone, where it was against the law for a pregnant girl to ever return to school. The campaign went viral on social media in Sierra Leone and was picked up by several media outlets.

Nine months later, a landmark decision from the Economic Community of West African States Court of Justice (ECOWAS) in Abuja, Nigeria, ruled that Sierra Leone's ban on pregnant girls taking exams and attending school is unlawful. The court ordered the government of Sierra Leone to lift the ban immediately, act to address the increase in teenage pregnancies, and work to fight discrimination against pregnant girls. Read more in The Guardian.

She’s the First was proud to bear witness to this victory—it shows what passionate local activists and a global conversation for girls’ rights can accomplish.

A Decade of Videos

The video player below (and here) features success stories from over the years. These girls represent the thousands whom we serve and the millions we fight for every day.